Apprentice Advisor Finance Service Desk
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Company: North Lincolnshire Council
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Location: Scunthorpe, DN15 6NL
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Legal, finance and accounting
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Ref: NAS-2000037773
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Application Deadline Date: 29/06/2026
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Start Date: 29/07/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 4.30pm
Brief Description
As a part the Council’s Financial Services, you will play a role in the day-to-day administration of our financial operations. Working across two teams the Finance Service Desk, supporting Accounts Payable and Receivable; and the Financial Systems Team, supporting with income management, bank reconciliation and our financial systems
Training to be Provided
To be confirmed
Future Prospects
The opportunity to progess into an accounts assistant role.
Vacancy Detail
- Provide financial support and assistance to staff and service users in accordance with the relevant Authority's financial policies and procedures.
- Investigate and respond to routine & transactional financial queries as appropriate or refer more complex queries to senior colleagues
- Produce financial information for service management, internal and external clients on appropriate media.
- Allocate income accurately, ensuring VAT is correctly accounted for.
- Assist in the bank reconciliation process.
- Process and complete a range of financial transactions including journals, virements and authorised invoices into the creditor & debtors system, supplier queries, invoice scanning and matching to purchase orders, having regard to the Council's policies and VAT requirements.
- Assist in satisfying creditor and debtor queries both internally and externally.
- Process, format, collate and assemble documents, records, information and data. including information and data gathering for corporate returns ensuring set deadlines are met.
- Post cash and cheques whether arising from cash receipting or bank files, including manual posting where appropriate for example bank file rejects. Arranging refund payments for customer overpayments as appropriate.
- Reconciling all input and output from the creditors, debtors and cash receipting processes and systems.
- Check the output from payment runs, ensuring the correct printing of cheques and/or BAGS payments and ensuring remittance advices are matched as appropriate for postal/fax/email remittances.
- Verification of the cheque control sheet with cheques issued and spoiled.
- Reimburse petty cash and bank Imprest claims
- Assist budget holders in financial planning and the preparation and monitoring of low risk/low complexity budgets including closedown procedures, providing financial advice to service users as required
- Update, interrogate and maintain financial systems using appropriate technology and interrogation tools, including maintenance of data integrity.
- Assist in the completion of financial returns including statistical and grant claims and performance measures under guidance.